Egg Nog

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Take the yelks of four eggs, and three tablespoonfuls of pulverized sugar, and beat them to a cream, adding a little nutmeg then mix in two ounces of the best brandy, and half a wineglass of Madeira wine; when this is well mixed, stir in a pint and a half of rich milk, have ready the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth, and beat them in the mixture when it is ready for use.

This preparation is not likely to cause headache, and is nourishing to the debilitated consumptive.

Flax Seed Tea

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Pour a pint of boiling water over an ounce of whole flax seed and quarter of an ounce of bruised liquorice root; cover lightly, digest for three or four hours near a fire, and strain through linen. With lemon, if necessary. It may be given as a common drink in catarrh.

Flax Seed Lemonade

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One quart boiling water poured on four tablespoonfuls of whole flax seed, juice of two lemons, leaving out the peel. Sweeten to taste; stew three hours in a covered pitcher. If too thick, put in cold water with the lemon juice and sugar. Ice for drinking.

Flour Ball Or Flour Boiled

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Take one quart of good flour, tie it up in a pudding bag so tightly as to make a firm, solid mass; put it into a pot of boiling water early in the morning, and let it boil until bed-time. Then take it out and let it dry. In the morning peel off from the surface, and throw away the thin rind of dough, and, with a nutmeg grater, grate down the hard dry mass into a powder. Of this from one to three tablespoonfuls may be used, by first rubbing it into a paste with a little milk, then adding it to about a pint of milk, and finally by bringing the whole to just the boiling point. It must be given through a nursing bottle.

Useful in irritability of the stomach and bowels, and in dysentery and diarrhoea.

An excellent food for children that are costive may be made by using bran meal or unbolted flour instead of the white flour, preparing it as above directed.

Flour Caudle

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Mix a tablespoonful of flour with about five tablespoonfuls of water; set on the fire an equal quantity of new milk, slightly sweetened, and let it boil; pour it gradually over the flour and water. let them boil together for twenty minutes, constantly stirring

Useful for infants with weak condition of the bowels.

Fruit Drinks

10,131. Cherries, currants, or raspberries may be used. Put the fruit in a jar, and set in a sauce pan of water over the fire, let the water boil slowly until the fruit in the jar is well broken, giving out its juice freely; then pour through a strainer or jelly-bag, slightly pressing the fruit. This juice sweetened and iced makes a pleasant, cooling drink.

Goat's MILK (Artificial).

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Boil an ounce of fresh suet, cut into small pieces and tied in a roomy muslin bag, in a quart of milk, in which is dissolved a quarter of an ounce of white sugar candy.

Useful in the emaciation of scrofula and phthisis, and for infants raised with a spoon.